Keywords: Road trips
Item 21651
South Portland High School trip, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Washington; South Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 7421
Postcard of covered wagon trip, Camp Winnebago, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1930 Location: Fayette Media: Postcard
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… tourists no longer had to endure long carriage trips to visit Scarborough beaches. By the 1870s, sixty-five trains a day brought passengers and…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"The trip from Philadelphia had been slow because of contrary winds, and the captain was anxious to reach port."
Story
Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C
Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
